WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oral arguments on President Barack Obama’s sweeping U.S. healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the Supreme Court said on Monday. The Supreme Court last month agreed...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Friday granted permission to appeal against extradition from Britain to Sweden over rape allegations and a hearing will start on February 1. “The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal and a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that religious groups cannot use public schools facilities for worship services outside of normal school hours in a case about church-state separation. The justices...

The main reason I hate the Supreme Court's overreliance on the use of dictionaries? Dictionaries aren't meant to be prescriptive, they're meant to be descriptive. Suppose a contract requires that a party google something...

Drama unfolding on Twitter; by the time I get this post up, it’ll probably have changed, but here goes anyway (slight Twitter glossary included for the uninitiated): About an hour ago I started getting RTs* indicating that Proposition 8...

We hope, at least. Nancy Pelosi has declared that passing the Lilly Ledbetter Act is a major priority for the House, and that it will likely pass tomorrow. The act is a way to get around the Supreme Court’s use of a really strained...

The Supreme Court just ruled in Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s favor over proposed GOP voter verification standards that would have potentially disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters. I’m trying to think of the...